The gravity of eros in the contemporary

Agnes Horvath; Arpad Szakolczai

doi:10.1177/0952695113489308

The gravity of eros in the contemporary

Agnes Horvath
, Arpad Szakolczai

School of Society, Politics and Ethics

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The study of eros as passionate devotion leads back to the classical foundations of social and political analysis, in particular Plato’s philosophical anthropology, focusing on imitation and not rationality as the moving force of social life.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	69-78
Number of pages	10
Journal	History of the Human Sciences
Volume	26
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695113489308
Publication status	Published - Dec 2013

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